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Professor of mechanical engineering Amos Winter (left) and graduate students Natasha Wright (on ladder) and Georgia Van de Zande assemble their desalination system a day before the USAID Desal Prize competition, which they won.

Cleaning water without the grid

MIT researchers have developed a solar-powered desalination system that could significantly increase the groundwater available for drinking in Indian villages.

February 16, 2016

The LIGO observatory has provided scientists with the first-ever direct detection of gravitational waves, ripples in the fabric of spacetime predicted in 1915 by physicist Albert Einstein. The waves originated from the merger of distant black holes, envisioned here in a computer simulation.

Gravitational waves detected 100 years after Einstein’s prediction

LIGO opens a new window on the universe with the observation of gravitational waves from colliding black holes.

February 11, 2016

The integrated science of learning — now emerging as a significant field of research — will be the core of MITili (pronounced “mightily”), a cross-disciplinary, Institute-wide initiative to foster rigorous quantitative and qualitative research on how people learn.

New initiatives accelerate learning research and its applications

Gabrieli, Belcher, Sarma leading new efforts to understand learning, improve it at all levels of education.

February 2, 2016

Incentives matter

Working with the Tata Center, two MIT economics students are testing projects to reduce industrial pollution in India.

January 29, 2016

A panel of MIT alumni who shared their experiences with starting and working at young companies included Alice Brooks (speaking), co-founder of Roominate. Other speakers were (from left to right): moderator Arun Saigal, co-founder and CEO of Rappidly; Wei Li, a principal engineer at Eta Devices; Amrita Saigal, co-founder of Saathi; and Theodora Koullias, founder and CEO of Jon Lou.

A jumpstart for entrepreneurs

Intensive course helps students navigate early challenges in starting a company.

January 29, 2016

CLIx will offer young people, especially from lower- and middle-income rural areas of India, access to interactive, hands-on learning experiences to advance their knowledge and skills, and to instill values to help them succeed as professionals and citizens, with a focus on cultivating students’ sense of professionalism.

MIT joins collaboration to bring connected learning experiences to Indian students and teachers

Connected Learning Initiative (CLIx) will integrate technology for active learning in secondary schools.

January 27, 2016

The SHASS Research Fund supports MIT research in the humanities, arts, or social sciences that shows promise of making an important contribution to the proposed area of activity.

Ten MIT-SHASS Research Fund recipients announced for 2016

January 25, 2016

This GridForm model of a village in Bihar, India, shows the optimal layout of hardware for the load profiles of the community. Each building, color-coded by the cost (in Indian rupees) of supplying electricity to that structure, is wired to a central generation/storage node (solid lines), and the nodes are connected to each other (dotted lines).

Going off grid: Tata researchers tackle rural electrification

At MIT’s Tata Center for Technology and Design, researchers are exploring ways to extend electricity access to rural communities in India using microgrids.

January 21, 2016

MIT spinout Cogito developed voice-analytics software for call centers that tracks and analyzes voice patterns of customers and agents — such as interruptions and rapid speech — and offers real-time feedback to make the conversations more productive.

Watch your tone

Voice-analytics software helps customer-service reps build better rapport with customers.

January 20, 2016

MIT affiliates were well represented in the 2016 Forbes 30 Under 30, honoring young leaders.

25 from MIT named to Forbes 30 Under 30 lists in 2016

Students, researchers, and alumni honored in the 2016 Forbes 30 Under 30 lists showcasing America’s most important young entrepreneurs, thinkers, and leaders.

January 7, 2016

Turnout was strong for the MIT Infrastructure Innovation in a Changing Environment Conference on Nov. 20.

Pushing engineering boundaries to spur infrastructure innovation

MIT hosts Infrastructure Innovation in a Changing Environment Conference.

December 22, 2015

"At l’Institut de la Vision, I helped develop a tool that is changing how biology is viewed — literally. I now plan to continue research full-time in a lab or company, ideally in France, after graduation." –Sunanda Sharma, MIT-France Program participant

MIT-France: Bolstering connections between MIT and the world

MIT political scientist Suzanne Berger provides perspective on MIT-France, one of the flagship programs of the MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives.

December 14, 2015

A new report estimates that, as of 2014, MIT alumni have launched 30,200 active companies, employing roughly 4.6 million people, and generating roughly $1.9 trillion in annual revenues.

New report outlines MIT’s global entrepreneurial impact

Alumni-founded companies have created 4.6 million jobs, generating nearly $2 trillion in annual revenues.

December 9, 2015

Thango, of South Africa, participates in a "World Climate" simulation, developed by MIT and Climate Interactive.

Climate negotiation role-play in Paris feels like the real thing

"World Climate" simulation, developed by MIT and Climate Interactive, challenges perceptions about climate negotiations and countries’ development needs.

December 7, 2015

The "Clean Energy Technology Frontiers" panel at the C3E Women in Clean Energy Symposium.

Clean energy connections and innovation

At C3E Symposium, industry-leading women share transformative research on policies, technologies, and diversity in energy sector.

December 4, 2015

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